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package shim-signed 1.12+0.8-0ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Bug #1598233 reported by Pierre PHILARDEAU on 2016-07-01

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1582320: libdebian-installer uses a different detection method for EFI than efivar. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	shim-signed (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Installing Ubuntu 16 LTS in a separate partition (ext9) failed : I had to install the OEM ISO disk to boot with Grub!
It didn't include Windows10 partition : I had to upgrade Ubuntu 14.04 LTS so get a functionning Grub that can boot Windows 10 version 15.11

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: shim-signed 1.12+0.8-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-24.43-generic 4.4.10
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
BootEFIContents:
fw
fwupx64.efi
Date: Fri Jul 1 08:27:41 2016
DuplicateSignature:
package:shim-signed:1.12+0.8-0ubuntu2
Setting up grub-efi-amd64-signed (1.66+2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3) ...
grub-install : erreur : /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/modinfo.sh n'existe pas. Veuillez utiliser --target ou --directory.
dpkg: error processing package grub-efi-amd64-signed (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
EFIBootMgr: Error: command ['efibootmgr', '-v'] failed with exit code 2: efibootmgr: EFI variables are not supported on this system.
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
RelatedPackageVersions:
dpkg 1.18.4ubuntu1.1
apt 1.2.12~ubuntu16.04.1
SourcePackage: shim-signed
Title: package shim-signed 1.12+0.8-0ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Pierre PHILARDEAU (pierrephilardeau) wrote on 2016-07-01:

AptOrdering.txt Edit (5.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (2.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Df.txt Edit (612 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dmesg.txt Edit (107.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgHistoryLog.txt Edit (6.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.txt Edit (18.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
JournalErrors.txt Edit (39.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Tyler Hicks (tyhicks) on 2016-07-01

information type:

Private Security → Public

Apport retracing service (apport) on 2016-07-01

tags:

removed: need-duplicate-check

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote on 2016-08-02:

This appears to be a duplicate of bug #1582320, which should be fixed with 16.04.1. Please check whether you're able to install Ubuntu on this system using the 16.04.1 install media, and if not please follow up to let us know.